A blog about my experiences with Manos The Hands of Fate as the only surviving cast or crew willing to talk about it. Author of "Growing Up With Manos The Hands Of Fate" and producer of the sequel "Manos Returns"

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Tuesday, October 16, 2012

As many of you know by now, I played Debbie the little girl in Manos The Hands of Fate and my dad played the Master. Today's story will continue with John Reynolds aka Torgo.

Today is the anniversary of John Reynolds death. He committed suicide on October 16, 1966. He was only 25 years old.

I still remember the day my mother and I heard the news. We were on our way to school. She was a teacher on Ben Milam Elementary School on Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas, and although my family wasn't military, I was a second grader at the same school. It was Monday morning, October 17th. Mom was driving while listening to the news on the car radio and I was daydreaming out the window when I heard my mother gasp and then burst into tears. She instantly pulled over to the curb, and while still crying, said, "John's dead". I knew who she meant. She took some time to compose herself as I just sat in the passenger seat waiting for things to be normal again. Later, I would get the details from overhearing the adults talking about it. That's when I learned he had put a gun in his mouth and pulled the trigger. Although he was not military, he was buried at Fort Bliss National Cemetary.

He died almost exactly one month before the world premire of Manos, The Hands of Fate which was at the Capri Theater in El Paso, Texas on November 15th 1966.

It’s been called the “worst movie ever made” – and Jackey Neyman Jones is not only one of its last

She played the part of the little girl Debbie in Manos, The Hands of Fate in 1966 and today, Jackey, an artist living in Oregon,
lovingly tends to the flame of Manos—with her new book, Growing up with Manos
The Hands of Fate, BearMedia Publishing,
foreword written by Joel Hodgson creator of MST3K, and she is making
public appearances at film festivals, conventions, book signings and screenings
of the remastered version of Manos: The Hands of Fate.